So, on the busiest shopping day of the year…
It’s been a while since we’ve done this, so let’s find some new homes for horses! READ THIS: IMAGES!  Please just post the direct link to your image and I will make it into an image.  The IMG link does not work.  HTML only works for me.  I don’t know why.  If you know why and are a WordPress guru, please tell me.  Right now only admins can make images and I haven’t found a setting to explain this. Okay…that said, if you are shopping for a particular horse, please list the details of what you are looking for along with a contact e-mail address so that anyone who has what y

‘Tis the season, so…
…let’s talk about what we are thankful for! I’m thankful that all of my horses are happy and healthy and I have people to board them with that I can totally trust to take excellent care of them. I’m thankful that I found a trainer that my horse loves, who is teaching him what he needs to know in a non-abusive way that keeps him fresh-minded and well-manner

The AR people are coming! Hide the starving horses!
Here we go again… In the wake of the Caton Ranch debacle, already discussed here, we have some “insiders” in the horse world doing their best to cover up for her and using the alarmist tactic of claiming that if this situation gets nationwide attention, it will just provide fodder for the Skeery Animal Rights Activists, who want to take away ALL of your horses!  (Folks, don’t write these e-mails. They ALWAYS wind up in my in-box.  ALWAYS.) From: United Horsemen̵

See no evil, hear no evil…too busy eating doughnuts!
We’ve all encountered a lot of clueless police before when dealing with humane cases, but I have to say the Tulsa County Sheriff is setting the bar awfully high in the incompetence sweepstakes. http://www.newson6.com/Global/category.asp?C=121535&clipId=4321548&autostart=true How many times do I have to tel

It’s Churchill Downs, not the wheelchair races!
I know everybody’s dying to talk about this one, so here you go. In case you haven’t already heard, the Asshat Queen of 2009, Kathleen Costello, got a Thoroughbred mare named Grand Forks from a farm she had worked at and gotten canned from. The mare’s previous owner, a gentleman named Rick Trontz, wanted to find a good home for her after her breeding career was over. In fact, he wanted to make sure no one would try to breed her since he did not want anything bad to happen to her. He was the epitome of a responsible horse breeder. So he gave the horse to Kathleen, who promised a future of dressage competitions for this still-sound st